Monday, January 16, 2017

[ARCHIVE] Call for Papers: Media Sociology Preconference 2017

Call
for Papers: Media Sociology Preconference 2017

Venue: Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Date:
August 11, 2017

We
invite submissions for a preconference
on media sociology to be held at Concordia University on Friday, August 11, 2017. (This is one day before the start of the
annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Montreal.) To
encourage the widest possible range of submissions, we have no
pre-specified
theme again this year and invite both theoretical and empirical papers
on any
topic related to media sociology. Submissions from graduate students and
junior
scholars are particularly welcome.

This preconference, now in its fifth consecutive year, is linked to an effort to
strengthen media sociology within the ASA: After a long period of
negotiation, the media sociology steering committee was able to
broker a deal with the Communication and Information Technologies
section (CITASA) at the end of 2014.CITASA officially changed its section name to "Communication,
Information Technologies and Media Sociology" in 2015 and is officially sponsoring the Media Sociology Preconference in 2017. Free registration to the preconference will be offered to all current CITAMS members.

Media sociology has long been a highly diverse
field spanning many topics, methodologies, and units of analysis. It
encompasses all forms of mass-mediated communication and expression, including
news media, entertainment media, as well as digital ("new") and non-digital ("old") media. Outstanding
research exists within the different subfields both within and beyond the
discipline of sociology. Our aim is to create dialogue among these disparate yet
complementary traditions.